Dedicated toAnna Politkovskaya andNatalia Estemirova, Russian writers and human right activists,
murdered by anonymous thugs in 2006 and 2009 for their opposition
to the Chechen conflict.

CHARACTERS: a Black Madonna, the widow of a
Basque fighter, a Chechen refugee, a Rumanian housewife, a Danish
lawyer, a rock musician from the Faroe Islands, a Colombian boy
searching for his father disappeared in Europe, an Italian street
violinist, two mercenaries.

The action of the performance takes places
simultaneously in different countries of Europe in 2031, after the
third civil war.

Individuals and groups with different backgrounds come together
and challenge each other driven by uprooting, war, unemployment and
financial crises. What happens when newcomers want to implant
themselves on foreign soil and be part of a society that thinks it
has solid cultural roots? What misunderstandings and discoveries
arise from this confrontation? How do people live in a country at
war in which soldiers become visible only when they return from
afar in coffins?

A boy arrives from Latin America to the feverish carnival of the
civilised regions of Europe. He is searching for his father who has
inexplicably disappeared. Little more than a child, he ignores what
everybody knows: that life is a chronic disease from which our
planet with its history is unable to free itself. Everybody knows
that a thousand doors lead to freedom, and everybody nourishes this
knowledge by eating without hunger and drinking without thirst.
Everybody knows that they have a great past, and from this
greatness each cuts out his own shred of honour and identity.

They answer the foreign boy's questions, teaching him to avoid
that worst of all vices - Hope. "Stop searching for your father"
they whisper, while escorting him from one door to another among
the wreckage of fables that they call their
history.

It is neither knowledge nor innocence that saves the boy. A new
ignorance helps him to discover his door. Amid the
bewilderment of all of us who no longer believe in the
unbelievable: that just one victim is worth more than any value.
More than God.